Bobby Petrino (born 1961), current head coach at University of Louisville
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Paul Petrino (born 1967), current head coach at the University of Idaho
Unlike Bobby Petrino, Dan Mullen, Lane Kiffin, and Urban Meyer, neither Alabama head coach Nick Saban nor LSU head coach Les Miles made negative comments about the officiating.
In April 2012, Petrino was involved in a motorcycle crash in Arkansas while sliding off Highway 16 near Crosses.
In 2013 Dread Central announced that director Joshua Petrino would begin work on a feature film based upon the tree.